DeNiro's Game, Montreal author Rawi Hage's debut novel about a young man yearning to escape war-torn ...
By Faustus Salvador
Interviews
It's a drizzly Thursday night on St-Laurent, that great boulevard where all that is Montreal collides and ...
By Kimberly Bourgeois
"Post-prairie poet" is an appealing phrase, one that could become fashionable in years to come, and yet it's ...
By Faustus Salvador
For the past decade or so, I've been sharing my deep, dark secret with students across the country: I hated poetry ...
By Carolyn Marie Souaid
Robert Allen is a formidable figure in Canadian literature. A poet and novelist, he is also editor of ...
By Bert Almon
In a recent mRb, you named Leonard Cohen's Stranger Music as your favourite Montreal book, saying ...
By Ian McGillis
"I was shy, inarticulate, not very forward, so writing was and is very liberating. And fun, so much fun." ...
By Ian McGillis
Who hasn't fantasized about dropping out of life for a while and assuming a new identity, or eavesdropping at your ...
By Tess Fragoulis
January 8, 2006. I sit in the chapel at Paperman and Sons funeral home on Jean Talon street among Irving Layton's ...
By Anne Cimon
Ask any book lover to recount the roots of their passion and you'll often hear a story of one specific book, ...
By Ian McGillis
I arrived in Montreal in 2001 as one more procurer of an escapist's hideaway. I was taking a risk in coming here, ...
By Dimitri Nasrallah
A typical writing day? I wake up and go for a walk. I pace out my plots on pavement. I contemplate the concrete ...
By Marci Denesiuk